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Maven repository jars comes with "xxx-sources.jar"

My jars in maven repository are appended with "-sources" like for example: junit-4.12-sources.jar. Please let me know what I can do to avoid this.

Theese are source files for libraries you are using. You can disable it by setting downloadSources to FALSE.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<downloadSources>false</downloadSources>
<downloadJavadocs>false</downloadJavadocs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Thank you all for your help. I was able to find the solution for this problem. I checked "Force Update of snapshots/Releases" an dupdated the project. In eclipse, you can do this by: Right click on the project --> Maven --> Update Project… --> Select the project that you want to update --> Check “Force Update of snapshots/Releases” and all the other 3 options are check by default --> OK. Build your project again.

Maven plugins can not be found in IntelliJ

After updating IntelliJ from version 12 to 13, the following Maven-related plugins cannot be resolved:
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin
When using IntelliJ 12, these were not in the plugins list. Somehow they've been added after the update and now IntelliJ complains they cannot be found. Where can I remove these plugins from the list OR resolve the problem by installing them?
I can run maven goals clean and compile without problem, but the profile/plugins appear red with warnings in the IDE.
EDIT after 8 years: Please also have a look at all other good answers here. The accepted answer is a common solution but might not work for you or for your IDE version

For newer versions of IntelliJ, enable the use plugin registry option within the Maven settings as follows:
Click File 🡒 Settings.
Expand Build, Execution, Deployment 🡒 Build Tools 🡒 Maven.
Check Use plugin registry.
Click OK or Apply.
For IntelliJ 14.0.1, open the preferences---not settings---to find the plugin registry option:
Click File 🡒 Preferences.
Regardless of version, also invalidate the caches:
Click File 🡒 Invalidate Caches / Restart.
Click Invalidate and Restart.
When IntelliJ starts again the problem should be vanquished.

Run a Force re-import from the maven tool window. If that does not work, Invalidate your caches (File > Invalidate caches) and restart. Wait for IDEA to re-index the project.

I had this problem for years with the maven-deploy plugin, and the error showed up even though I was not directly including the plugin in my POM. As a work-around I had to force include the plugin with a version into my POMs plugin section just to remove the red-squiggly.
After trying every solution on Stack Overflow, I found the problem: Looking into my .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin directory there was a version 'X.Y' along with '2.8.2' et al. So I deleted the entire maven-deploy-plugin directory, and then re-imported my Maven project.
So it seems the issue is an IntelliJ bug in parsing the repository. I would not not remove the entire repository though, just the plugins that report an error.

None of the other answers worked for me. The solution that worked for me was to download the missing artifact manually via cmd:
mvn dependency:get -DrepoUrl=http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ -Dartifact=ro.isdc.wro4j:wro4j-maven-plugin:1.8.0
After this change need to let know the Idea about new available artifacts. This can be done in "Settings > Maven > Repositories", select there your "Local" and simply click "Update".
Edit: the -DrepoUrl seems to be deprecated. -DremoteRepositories should be used instead. Source: Apache Maven Dependency Plugin – dependency:get.

The red with warnings maven-site-plugin resolved after the build site Lifecycle:
My IntelliJ version is Community 2017.2.4

SOLVED !!!
This is how I fixed the issue...
Tried one of the answers which include 'could solve it by enabling "use plugin registry" '. Did enable that but no luck.
Tried again one of the answers in the thread which says 'If that does not work, Invalidate your caches (File > Invalidate caches) and restart.' Did that but again no luck.
Tried These options ..
Go to Settings --> Maven --> Importing and made sure the following was selected
Import Maven projects automatically
Create IDEA modules for aggregator projects Keep source...
Exclude build dir...
Use Maven output...
Generated souces folders: "detect automatically"
Phase to be...: "process-resources"
Automatically download: "sources" & "documentation"
Use Maven3 to import
project VM options for importer: -Xmx512m
But again no success.
Now lets say I had 10 such plugins which didn't get resolve and among them the
first was 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin'
I went to '.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/' and deleted the directory
'maven-site-plugin' and did a maven reimport again. Guess what, particular
missing plugin got dowloaded. And I just followed similar steps for other
missing plugins and all got resolved.

I had the same issue. I added the plugins into my pom.xml dependencies and it works for me.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3</version>
<type>maven-plugin</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<type>maven-plugin</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<type>maven-plugin</type>
</dependency>

I tried the other answers, but none of them solved this problem for me.
The problem disappeared when I explicitly added the groupId like this:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Once the color of the version number changed from red to black and the problem disappeared from the Problems tab the groupId can be removed again from the problematic plugin, the error does not show up again and the version number even shows up as suggestion for version.

I am using IntelliJ Ultimate 2018.2.6 and found out, that the feature Reimport All Maven Project does not use the JDK, which is set in the Settings: Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Maven | Runner.
Instead it uses it's own JRE in IntelliJ_HOME/jre64/ by default. You can configure the JDK for the Importer in Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Maven | Importing.
In my specific problem, an SSL certificate was missing in the JREs keystore. Unfortunately IDEA only logs this issue in it's own logfile. A little red box to inform about the RuntimeException had been really nice...

I had the same error and was able to get rid of it by deleting my old Maven settings file. Then I updated the Maven plugins manually using the mvn command:
mv ~/.m2/settings.xml ~/.m2/settings.xml.old
mvn -up
Finally I ran the "Reimport All Maven Projects" button in the Maven Project tab in IntelliJ. The errors vanished in my case.

None of the other solutions worked for me.
My solution:
Maven Settings -> Repositories -> select Local Repository in the list, Update
Worked like a charm!

This did the trick for me...delete all folders and files under 'C:\Users[Windows User Account].m2\repository'.
Finally ran 'Reimport All Maven Projects' in the Maven Project tab in IntelliJ.

Remove your local Maven unknown plugin and reimport all maven projects. This will fix this issue.
You can find it under View > Tool Windows > Maven :

For me it was as simple as giving the plugin a version:
<version>3.3.0</version>
The full plugin code sample is given below:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>Main</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

I was recently faced with the same issue. None of the other solutions resolved the red error lines.
What I did was run the actual targets in question (deploy, site). I could see those dependencies then being fetched.
After that, a reimport did the trick.

If an artifact is not resolvable.
Go in the directory of your .m2/repository
and check that you DON'T have that kind of file :
build-helper-maven-plugin-1.10.pom.lastUpdated
If you don't have any artefact in the folder, just delete it, and try again to re-import in IntelliJ.
the content of those files is like :
#NOTE: This is an Another internal implementation file, its format can be changed without prior notice.
#Fri Mar 10 10:36:12 CET 2017
#default-central-https\://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/.lastUpdated=1489138572430
https\://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/.error=Could not transfer artifact org.codehaus.mojo\:build-helper-maven-plugin\:pom\:1.10 from/to central (https\://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)\: connect timed out
Without the *.lastUpdated file, IntelliJ (or Eclipse by the way) is enabled to reload what is missing.

I could solve this problem by changing "Maven home directory" from "Bundled (Maven 3) to "/usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.2.5/libexec" in the maven settings of IntelliJ (14.1.2).

Uncheck the "Work offline" checkbox in Maven settings.

Here is what I tried to fix the issue and it worked:
Manually deleted the existing plugin from the .m2 repo
Enabled "use plugin registry" in IntelliJ
Invalidated the cache and restarted IntelliJ
Reimported the maven project in IntelliJ
After following above steps, the issue was fixed. Hopefully this helps you as well.

For me which worked is putting the repository which contained the plugin under pluginRepository tags. Example,
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>pcentral</id>
<name>pcentral</name>
<url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

Enabling "use plugin registry" and Restart project after invalidate cash solved my problem
to Enabling "use plugin registry" >>> (intelij) File > Setting > Maven > enable the option from the option list of maven
To invalidate cash >>> file > invalidate cash
That's it...

This worked for me
Go to Settings --> Maven --> Importing --> JDK for importer -->
use "Use Project JDK" option instead of a custom JDK set previously.
Re-build/re-import all the dependencies.

This worked for me:
Close IDEA
Delete "*.iml" and ".idea" -directories(present in the root folder of project)
Run "mvn clean install" from the command-line
Re-import your project into IDEA
After re-importing the entire project, installation of dependencies will start which will take some minutes to complete depending upon your internet connection.

My case:
maven-javadoc-plugin with version 3.2.0 is displayed red in IntelliJ.
Plugin is present in my local maven repo.
Re-imported maven million times.
Ran mvn clean install from the command line N times.
All my maven settings in IntelliJ are correct.
Tried to switch between Bundled and non-bundled Maven.
Tried do delete the whole maven repo and to delete only the plugin from it.
Nothing of the above worked.
The only thing that almost always helps with modern IntelliJ IDEA versions is "Invalidate caches / Restart". It helped this time as well. maven-javadoc-plugin is not red anymore, and I can click on it and to to the source pom file of the plugin.

Recently I faced the same issue.
All tips doesn't work in my cause.
But I fix it.
Go to Intellij idea setting, find Maven, and in it you need to open Repository tab and update maven and local repos. That's all.

If you have red squiggles underneath the project in the Maven plugin, try clicking the "Reimport All Maven Projects" button (looks like a refresh symbol).

Check the plugins which cannot be found (maven-site-plugin,maven-resources-plugin)
go to '.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/'
delete the directory rm -rf plugin-directory-name (eg: rm -rf maven-site-plugin)
exit project from intellij
import project again
Do a Maven reimport
Explanation: when you do a maven reimport, it will download all the missing plugins again.
Happy Coding

I use the community edition packaged as snap on Ubuntu 18.04.
I experience that issue each time there a IntelliJ release.
In that scenario, my working solution is to invoke the invalidate cache and restart from the file menù flagging the indexes removal too.

June/2021:
No Delete, No Reimport.
What I did is, I was going to :
C:\Users\dell\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins
Then double Click on every Plugin Folders, And see what version it is downloaded.
Then I came back to pom file, and according to downloaded version, I carefully changes those versions in <version>....</version> Tags. Then refresh.
And That way, All red marks are gone, Even gone those Yellow Marks.
All Clean.
Here is my full pom file for further notice. The Project is JavaFx+Maven with Shade :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>main.java.sample</groupId>
<artifactId>ThreeColumnTable</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-controls</artifactId>
<version>15.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-fxml</artifactId>
<version>15.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<type>maven-plugin</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<type>maven-plugin</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>11</source>
<target>11</target>
<release>11</release>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>resources</goal>
<goal>testResources</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<configuration>
<filesets>
<fileset>
<directory>src/main/generated-groovy-stubs</directory>
</fileset>
</filesets>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>org.example.App</mainClass>
<manifestFile>src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>org.example.App</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
<shadedClassifierName>project-classifier</shadedClassifierName>
<transformers>
<transformer implementation=
"org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<mainClass>org.example.Main</mainClass>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Goto IntelliJ -> Preferences -> Plugin
Search for maven, you will see
1. Maven Integration
2. Maven Integration Extension.
Select the Maven Integration option and restart your Intellij

"maven-resources-plugin prior to 2.4 is not supported by m2e"

I'm having problems with m2e (Maven plugin into Eclipse IDE).
I see the following error:
maven-resources-plugin prior to 2.4 is not supported by m2e. Use maven-resources-plugin version 2.4 or later.
I have no idea how to resolve this error. I'm pretty sure it is an m2e issue (maybe a setup thing?).
Background:
I'm attempting to build Tika v0.9
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tika/tags/0.9/
I can build using Maven from command line.
I can build using Netbeans v7.0.1.
I am running Maven 3.0.3.
I am running Eclipse Indigo Service Release 1 (Build id: 20110916-0149)
I am running m2e v1.0.100.20110804-1717
Thanks for any help.
Albert

In the tika.parent project you can find org.apache.apache.6 as parent:
<parent>
<groupId>org.apache</groupId>
<artifactId>apache</artifactId>
<version>6</version>
<relativePath />
</parent>
And in the pom.xml from org.apache apache you can find:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
First simple solution:
add the following into the pom of tika.parent under "build - pluginManagement - plugins" (line 230):
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<configuration>
<encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
And then ask the tika team to use a newer org.apache apache parent pom.

How did you import your project into eclipse? (the mvn eclipse:eclipse goal, or "import maven project" in Eclipse?)
Maybe this answer is of relevance: Error in POM.xml

Another solution which worked for me is :
1) Uninstall all the existing Maven plugins from Ecplise.
2) Then install Maven plugin from this location : http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e
-Rushi

Maven – Always download sources and javadocs

Is there a way I can configure maven to always download sources and javadocs? Specifying -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true everytime (which usually goes along with running mvn compile twice because I forgot the first time) becomes rather tedious.

Open your settings.xml file ~/.m2/settings.xml (create it if it doesn't exist). Add a section with the properties added. Then make sure the activeProfiles includes the new profile.
<settings>
<!-- ... other settings here ... -->
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>downloadSources</id>
<properties>
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
<downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles>
<activeProfile>downloadSources</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
</settings>
Edit: As mentioned by Jingguo Yao, this works with Eclipse IDE only - the same can also be configured in your IDE of choice. In Elcipse via Window -> Preferences -> Maven menu, though this probably has to done at every workspace level and for fresh Eclipse installations.
Alternatively configure the maven-dependency-plugin in your pom.xml in a separate profile and run it as required - keeping it in the main build will lead to build times (needlessly elongating (not to mention space) at places like your build nodes that don't need either sources or java docs. Preferable this should configured in some org or division parent pom.xml, otherwise it has be repeated everywhere in different places

In my case the "settings.xml" solution didn't work so I use this command in order to download all the sources:
mvn dependency:sources
You also can use it with other maven commands, for example:
mvn clean install dependency:sources -Dmaven.test.skip=true
To download all documentation, use the following command:
mvn dependency:resolve -Dclassifier=javadoc

Just consolidating and prepared the single command to address source and docs download...
mvn dependency:sources dependency:resolve -Dclassifier=javadoc

Answer for people from Google
In Eclipse you can manually download javadoc and sources.
To do that, right click on the project and use
Maven -> Download JavaDoc
Maven -> Download Sources

I am using Maven 3.3.3 and cannot get the default profile to work in a user or global settings.xml file.
As a workaround, you may also add an additional build plugin to your pom.xml file.
<properties>
<maven-dependency-plugin.version>2.10</maven-dependency-plugin.version>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- Download Java source JARs. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-dependency-plugin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>sources</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

On NetBeans :
open your project explorer->Dependencies->[file.jar] rightclick->Download Javadoc

As #xecaps12 said, the simplest/efficient approach is to change your Maven settings file (~/.m2/settings.xml) but if it is a default settings for you, you can also set it like that
<profile>
<id>downloadSources</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<properties>
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
<downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
</properties>
</profile>

In Netbeans, you can instruct Maven to check javadoc on every project open :
Tools | Options | Java icon | Maven tab | Dependencies category | Check Javadoc drop down set to Every Project Open.
Close and reopen Netbeans and you will see Maven download javadocs in the status bar.

To follow up on the answer from kevinarpe this does both sources and Javadocs:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>sources</goal>
<goal>resolve</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<classifier>javadoc</classifier>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

I think it can be done per plugin. See this chapter from the Maven book.
You might be able to configure the dependency plugin to download sources (even though I haven't tried it myself :-).

Simply modify file mvn (or mvn.cmd if in windows) and add whatever command line switches you need (as mentioned by other answers). If you don't want to modify the install files (which I'd recommend), create a mymvn (or mymvn.cmd) wrapper that invokes the regular mvn with the parameters.

Not sure, but you should be able to do something by setting a default active profile in your settings.xml
See
See http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html

I had to use KeyStore to Download the Jars. If you have any Certificate related issues you can use this approach:
mvn clean install dependency:sources -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore="Path_To_Your_KeyStore"
If you want to know how to create KeyStores, this is a very good link:
Problems using Maven and SSL behind proxy

For the sources on dependency level ( pom.xml) you can add :
<classifier>sources</classifier>

For intellij users, inside the pom.xml file, right click anywhere and select Maven -> Download sources and Documentation.

Get sources of a snapshot dependency on Eclipse

Something bother me a lot...
On a big project with many dependencies, some of them are set as SNAPSHOT in Maven2.
The matter is that it seems i can't get the sources through Eclipse without loading the project or fixing the dependency to the last release.
For debugging, it's really annoying me...
EDIT
This is what i get in eclipse maven console:
26/08/10 11:31:46 CEST: Downloading http://repo-maven/archiva/repository/snapshots/com/blabla/1.1-SNAPSHOT/blabla-1.1-20100824.213711-80-javadoc.jar
26/08/10 11:31:47 CEST: Could not download sources for com.blabla:blabla:1.1-20100824.213711-80
On archiva i can see the deployed stuff i want to retrieve in eclipse...
Repository snapshots
Group ID com.blabla
Artifact ID blabla
Version 1.1-20100824.213711-80
Packaging jar
Parent com.blabla bla 1.1-SNAPSHOT (View)
Other Versions 1.1-20100824.213535-79
I can download sources of this artifact with my browser but not within Eclipse... Any idea?

The matter is that it seems I can't get the sources through Eclipse without loading the project or fixing the dependency to the last release. For debugging, it's really annoying me...
Well, these modules are probably not publishing source JARs as part of the "regular" build process (i.e. outside the release). If these modules are under your control (which is my understanding), configuring the Maven Source Plugin to produce source JARs for them and deploying them in your corporate repo should solve the problem. From the Usage page:
Installing the sources along with your artifact
There are two ways to do this. You can
either bind this plugin to a phase or
you can add it to a profile. The goals
source:jar-no-fork and
source:test-jar-no-fork are preferred
for binding the goal to the build
lifecycle.
Installing the sources using a phase binding
Here is how you would configure the
plugin in your pom.xml to run
automatically during the verify phase:
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-sources</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
...
</project>
We are using the verify phase here
because it is the phase that comes
before the install phase, thus making
sure that the sources jar has been
created before the install takes
place.
Installing the sources using a profile
If you want to install a jar of your
sources along with your artifact
during the release process, you can
add this to your pom.xml file:
<project>
...
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>release</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-sources</id>
<goals>
<goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
...
</project>
Using a profile would probably be a good idea so that building source JARs will only be done by the build running at the CI server level but not on developer machines.